Last time there were just four votes, with Topps getting all four. Will Hostess get on the board here?
Both sets featured portraits of the slugger deep in thought. Hostess has him looking at the camera at spring training, while Topps has Winfield looking off into the San Francisco sky, deep in shadow.
Dave Winfield was one of the all-time greats. He was a five-tool player who excelled at every part of the game. He was certainly one of my favorite players when I started following baseball and the Yankees. Looking back, some of his struggles may have been pressure to justify his big contract. Still, he had great success everywhere he played, finally winning a World Series with Toronto in 1992. In 2,973 games over 22 seasons, he hit .283 with 465 HR, 1,833 RBI and 223 SB. He was a 12-time All-Star and 7-time Gold Glove winner. Winfield has been heavily involved in charitable and business adventures going back to his days with the Padres, and has always had a wide variety of interests beyond sports. He started charitable work in his rookie season, and in 1977 the David M. Winfield Foundation was the first charitable foundation founded by an active athlete. In addition to his numerous charitable adventures, he has numerous business interests. In addition to his own company, Winfield is an Advisor to the MLBPA, investor in a fitness startup, and is on the board of directors of a publicly-traded SPAC.

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ReplyDeleteGum. Topps card looks a little better in person and photo shows some more thought.
ReplyDeleteCake because he's too hard to see with the shadow on the Topps card. If the lighting were better (and everything else the same) Topps would take it.
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ReplyDeleteCake. Those shadowy photos are no fun
ReplyDeleteWent back and forth on this one. I like Winfield staring off into the distance photo, but it blends in a little too much to the stadium shadow. I'll go with the much clearer (yet a little boring) portrait shot. Cake.
ReplyDeleteCheck out this example of the '77 Topps Winfield card, shadow not nearly as strong:
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Voting gum more for the mustard yellow uni!
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